Flea Market Finds & How to Restore Them - Hardcover

Atkins, Caroline

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9781843403289: Flea Market Finds & How to Restore Them

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843403285 ISBN 13: 9781843403289

Publisher: Collins & Brown, 2005

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Browse through these pages to get practical answers to the most frequently asked questions about how to check out an item before buying it at the flea market, which techniques to use when renovating your treasure, and how best to show off the prized item in your d�cor. Each chapter covers a different material, from glass, ceramics, and metal to textiles, leather, wood, and stone. If you need to know how to look after lace, the smartest method for storing vintage clothes, whether you can create a floor out of those old boards you've salvaged, or how to repair marquetry, this book will tell you how.

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About the Author:

Caroline Atkins is a freelance writer and editor specializing in interiors. She writes for many magazines and is the author of Country Living Country Christmas.

Review:

If you like car-boot sales, antique fairs or flea markets, you'll find this book invaluable. Written in association with "Country Living" magazine, it is an informative and knowledgeable guide to every sort of collectible to be found. China, basket-ware, textiles and glass are but a few looked at in depth: history, care, restoration and display or use. How to tell pottery apart from porcelain, detect a real Lloyd Loom chair or bakelite ashtray, where to find your local market and innovative ideas on how to use your finds in attractive ways. Packed with advice and many colour photographs, this is another practical "Country Living" guide, presented in a question and answer format for easy reference. - Lucy Watson

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